From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Sep 27 15:31:47 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from m4.c2.telstra-mm.net.au (m4.c2.telstra-mm.net.au [24.192.3.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D99214F25 for ; Mon, 27 Sep 1999 15:31:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from areilly@nsw.bigpond.net.au) Received: from m5.c2.telstra-mm.net.au (m5.c2.telstra-mm.net.au [24.192.3.20]) by m4.c2.telstra-mm.net.au (8.8.6 (PHNE_14041)/8.8.6) with ESMTP id IAA06466 for ; Tue, 28 Sep 1999 08:31:35 +1000 (EST) X-BPC-Relay-Envelope-From: areilly@nsw.bigpond.net.au X-BPC-Relay-Envelope-To: X-BPC-Relay-Sender-Host: m5.c2.telstra-mm.net.au [24.192.3.20] X-BPC-Relay-Info: Message delivered directly. Received: from areilly.bpc-users.org (CPE-24-192-49-170.nsw.bigpond.net.au [24.192.49.170]) by m5.c2.telstra-mm.net.au (8.8.6 (PHNE_14041)/8.8.6) with SMTP id IAA20829 for ; Tue, 28 Sep 1999 08:31:34 +1000 (EST) Received: (qmail 74739 invoked by uid 1000); 27 Sep 1999 22:31:34 -0000 From: "Andrew Reilly" Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 08:31:34 +1000 To: Nik Clayton Cc: Andrew Reilly , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A new package fetching utility, pkg_get Message-ID: <19990928083134.A73274@gurney.reilly.home> References: <199909252352.BAA26437@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> <19990927102234.A53880@gurney.reilly.home> <19990927080912.A2944@kilt.nothing-going-on.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <19990927080912.A2944@kilt.nothing-going-on.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Sep 27, 1999 at 08:09:13AM +0100, Nik Clayton wrote: > On Mon, Sep 27, 1999 at 10:22:34AM +1000, Andrew Reilly wrote: > > What I'd like is a little weekly crontab script that runs after > > my weekly ports cvsup, and tells me which of the ports that I > > "subscribe to" has changed, so that I can think about rebuilding it. > > ports/sysutils/pkg_version. > > Then apply the patches at > > http://www.freebsd.org/~nik/pkg_version.diff > pkg_version.1.diff > > and use the -c flag. This is lovely. And it re-inforces one of my pet theories: if you want a program badly enough that you're prepared to write it, someone else almost certainly has... Thanks. -- Andrew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message